Liquid supplying and distributing machine



No. 6H.,264. Patented Sept. 27, I898. W. L. MARSH.

LIQUID SUPPLYINGAND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

(Application fil'ed Jan. 22, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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LIQUID SUPPLYING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,264, dated September 27, 1898. Application filed January 22, 1898- Serial No. 667,625. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIs LINooLN MARSH, a citizen of the United States, residing at J efferson City, in the county of Cole and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Supplying and Distributing Machines; and'I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to boot and shoe machinery, and more particularly to a machine for applying liquids, such as cement or ink, to the surfaces of various parts of boots and shoes.

The object of the present invention is to produce a machine by which cement or ink can be rapidly applied to soles or other parts of boots or shoes and properly spread or distributed thereon.

A further object of the present invention is to produce a liquid distributing machine which shall comprise a tank or receptacle for the liquid and a rotary distributing element connected with said tank, and to construct such rotary distributing element in such mannor that the liquid will be supplied thereto in the proper quantity, and to provide suitable controlling means whereby the flow of liquid to such liq uid-distributing element may be properly controlled.

To the above end the present invention con sists of the devices and combination of devices which will be hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

The present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the same in side elevation, portions of the liquid distributing element being broken away to show underlying construction. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section through the liquid-distributing element, and Fig. 3 represents in side elevation and partial section one of the liquid-supplying tubes removed from the liquid-distributing element and considerably enlarged in order to properly illustrate its construction.

Similar letters of reference represent corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, A represents a suitable supporting-frame, which may be of suitable size and arrangement to support the working parts, and, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, said frame consists of a bed a, arranged to be placed upon any suitable workbench or other support in convenient position to support the machine for proper operation.

Projecting vertically from the bed a are suitable uprights or standards ct,'in which are formed suitable bearings to receive and support the hollow shaft a and upon said shaft, between the bearings 00, are secured suitable fast and loose pulleys a and a, which pulleys may be driven from a belt from any suitable source of power to impart rotary motion to the shaft a Upon the outer end of the shaft a outside of the standard a, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, is secured a suitable liquid-distributing element B, which element in the illustrated embodiment of the present invention comprises a suitable cylindrical brush. The brush B comprises a cylindrical body portion 19, which is hollow, as shown in the drawings, and which may be interiorly threaded at 1), whereby said body portion may be secured to the threaded end of the hollow shaft a and the outer end of the cylindrical body portion 1) may be closed in any suitable manner, as by a screw-plug b threaded within the same.

To supply ink or cement to the revolving brush B, I have provided a suitable tank or receptacle O, which may be mounted upon suitable supports 0 upon the rear end of the body portion Ct and is connected by means of a pipe 0 to the hollow shaft a a suitable joint or stuffing-box 0 being provided as a union between the pipe 0 and the shaft a which will permit a free rotation of the shaft a and prevent the leakage of the liquid from said union.

A suitable cook or valve 0 may be introduced in the pipe 0 to control the flow of ink or cement from said pipe to the brush B. The brush B comprises any suitable character of bristles b which may be secured in any suitable manner in the bed or cylinder 1), and preferably'in such a mannerthat the ink or cement will not be communicated to the bristles 17 through their inner ends. In

order to supply ink or cement to the bris-.

tles I2 I have provided suitable supply-tubes 71 which are shown as comprising short cylindrical tubes,which are preferably threaded upon their exteriors, as shown at b and which are tapped into threaded bearings I) in the cylinder or body portion l), the bearings b being so formed that the supply-tubes b when inserted therein will be tangentially disposed with relation to the axis of rotation of the brush B, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

As clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the supply-tubes B are closed at their inner ends and open at their outer ends, the outer end of each tube being interiorly threaded, as shown at 11 and fitted with aplug 11 for a purpose which will be hereinafter described.

The inner ends of the supply-tubes b are provided with suitable ports U, which, as shown in Fig. 3, are slightly removed from the closed ends of the tubes, and through said ports I)" the ink or cement is admitted to the supply-tubes b from the cylindrical body portion Z) of the brush l3 and is conducted through said tubes to their outer ends to be supplied to the bristles W, a suitable port 11 being provided at the outer ends of the supply-tubes b whereby the ink or cement may be supplied to the bristles U The flow of ink or cement from the supplytubes b is controlled by the screw-plugs b said plugs being arranged to be adjusted to close and open, more or less, the ports I).

In order to insure the proper flow of ink or cement through the supply-tubes I1 I have arranged in each tube a suitable plunger or follower, arranged to act upon the ink or cement contained in the illustrated embodiment of the present invention, comprising suitable metallic balls h, which as the brush 13 is slowly revolved will travel back and forth along the tangentially-disposed tubes If and insure the proper flow of liquid therefrom.

In the operation of the present invention, power being applied to the fast pulley a to slowly rotate the tubular shaft a and the brush 15, secured to the outer end thereof, and the reservoir being filled with ink or cement or other liquid which it is desired to apply to the surfaces of boots and shoes, and communication between said tank and the shaft (1 being open to permit the ink to flow from the pipe 0 into the shaft (t and the interior of the brush B, the slow rotation of the brush B will cause the balls Z) to move back and forth along the supply-tubes b and force the ink or cement out of the ports I) to properly supply the bristles b therewith, whereupon the shoe or other article may be properly presented in position to be acted upon by the bristles Z1 when the ink or cement will be applied to such article and distributed by the slowly-revolving brush.

I do not confine myself to the exact details of construction which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described in the foregoing specification; but,

Having described the construction and mode of operation of the illustrated embodiment of my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States? 1. In a liquid supplying and distributing machine, the combination with a rotary liquid-supplying element, comprising a hollow body portion, of liquid-supplying tubes secured in said hollow body portion and leading from the interior to the exterior thereof, said tubes being arranged tangentially with relation to the axis of rotation of the liquiddistributing element, substantially as described.

2. In a liquid supplying and distributing machine, the combination of the hollow brush and means to supply liquid to the interior thereof, of suitable liquid-supplying tubes arranged to conduct the liquid from the interior to the exterior of said. brush, and suitable plungers arranged to reciprocate in said supply-tubes, as the brush is revolved to force the liquid along said tubes, substantially as described.

3. In a liquid supplying and distributing machine, the combination with a hollow brush and means to supply liquid to the interior thereof, of supply-tubes leading from the interior to the exterior of said brush and disposed tangentially with relation to the axis of rotation thereof, and suitable inlets and outlets in said supply-tubes, the inlets being removed from the ends of said tubes and suitable plungers located in said supplytubes, and arranged to reciprocate therein as the brush is revolved, substantially as described.

4. In a liquid supplying and distributing machine, the combination with the supply tank or reservoir,of the hollow rotating brush, connected therewith, a supply-tube leading from the interior to the exterior of said brush arranged to supply liquid to the bristles of said brush, said supply-tube arranged tangentially with relation to the axis of rotation, and having a suitable inlet and outlet in opposite ends thereof, and a ball arranged to reciprocate along said supply-tube as said brush is revolved, and means to regulate the flow of liquid from the outlet of said tube, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

W'ILLIS LINCOLN MARSH.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE WAGNER, J. CREVELT. 

